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Professor Patrick J. Quinn
Biographical Note
A graduate of University College, Dublin and the University of Pennsylvania where he studied under Louis I. Kahn, Patrick Quinn has combined practice, teaching and research for most of his professional life. At Berkeley’s College of Environmental he taught both Architecture and Landscape Architecture and practised in San Francisco where he and his partner Francis Oda, FAIA won a number of national and international awards for religious architecture including an AIA National Honor award.
As Dean of Architecture at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute he continued to teach and practice with commissioned works in Florida, New York, France and Italy. His works and writings were published internationally in seven languages and he has lectured at over fifty universities, museums and professional associations on four continents.
As Institute Professor Emeritus he has taught in India, New Zealand and Australia.
He recently chaired the New England AIA Awards Jury and is currently Associate Editor for the Cambridge World History of Religious architecture
In addition to FAIA, he is a Fellow the American Academy in Rome, the Fulbright Association and The Royal Society for Arts.. He is a former AIA chapter president and was president of ACSA in 1991-92. For fun he has lectured on James Joyce and swum in the FINA World Masters Championships.
Specialties
Accessibility Compliance, Architectural Design, Expert Witness, Facility Evaluation Services, Fine Arts and Crafts, Graphic Design, Interior Design, Lighting Design, Renderings, Space Planning, Space Schematics / Flow Diagrams, Special Building Type Consultation
Interests
Masters swimming, Irish literature/poetry, Acting, choral singing.
Education
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania,
United States
M. Arch,
1959
architecture, urban design
1958 To
1959
Dissertation: Religious Architecture/ church design
Advisor: Prof. Louis I. Kahn
MIT
Cambridge,
Massachusetts,
United States
special graduate seminar/ religious communities
1966 To
1966
National University of Ireland, University College, Dublin
Dublin,
Ireland
B. Arch ( hons, 1st place),
1954
architecture, archaeology
1949 To
1954
Dissertation: National Olympic Center
Advisor: Prof. M. McDermott.
National College of Art
Dublin,
Ireland
non-degree student,
1953
Drawing in various media
1947 To
1953
Dissertation: ----------------
Advisor: Prof Golden, Prof Keating, Prof O'Sullivan
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